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- FAQs
- ====
- Building on other platforms
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- NSIS can run on Linux, so you can build Windows installers without running
- Windows. However, if your package relies on compiled extension modules, like
- PyQt4, lxml or numpy, you'll need to ensure that the installer is built with
- Windows versions of these packages. There are two ways to do this:
- - Get the importable packages/modules, either from a Windows installation, or
- by extracting them from an installer. Copy them into a folder called
- ``pynsist_pkgs``, next to your ``installer.cfg`` file. pynsist will
- copy everything in this folder to the build directory.
- - Include exe/msi installers for those modules, and modify the ``.nsi`` template
- to extract and run these during installation. This can make your installer
- bigger and slower, and it may create unwanted start menu shortcuts
- (e.g. PyQt4 does), so the first option is usually better. However, if the
- installer sets up other things on the system, you may need to do this.
- When running on non-Windows systems, pynsis will bundle a 32-bit version of
- Python by default, though you can override this :ref:`in the config file <cfg_python>`.
- Whichever method you use, compiled libraries must have the same bit-ness as
- the version of Python that's installed.
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